Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development. I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://thepolycrisis.org/https://bsky.app/profile/70sbachchan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/70sbachchan.bsky.social/post/3mqqg2nbris2dlol how do you say Streisand effect in Chinese? Chinese govt outburst against Peterson institute's 'China Squeeze' paper is going to make more people read it! @katemac.bsky.social & I wrote about it https://thepolycrisis.org/the-beijing-pivot/16 Jul 2026 04:37 +0000at://did:plc:cmvp2dfgs7qrfjo5n27limmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqqg2nbris2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/70sbachchan.bsky.social/post/3lxvnenuils2x1/ Hope this thread helps break through the mental logjam for normies. For anyone in the game of technology/ innovation/development this is just basic facts now. For the first time in 2 centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology,but the follower https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/08/14/climate/china-clean-energy-patents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eE8.jjUo.XyCQ25czwN-w&smid=url-share03 Sep 2025 03:02 +0000at://did:plc:cmvp2dfgs7qrfjo5n27limmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxvnenuils2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/70sbachchan.bsky.social/post/3mqhs6mp4jk23As War restarts, I keep hearing "tactical success, strategic failure" as a summary of US-Israel war on Iran because of enormous destruction of Iran's military and economic capacity & regime decapitation. But its better described as "tactical failure, strategic failure". Good note by @policytensor12 Jul 2026 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:cmvp2dfgs7qrfjo5n27limmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqhs6mp4jk23https://bsky.app/profile/70sbachchan.bsky.social/post/3mqcmqrzxdc2wNEW: @katemac.bsky.social & I: "Heat waves tend to attract less attention than the charismatic megafauna of climate disasters—floods, storms, wildfires—in part because they cause less property damage & thus less obviously financially costly" https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-scorching/ Graphic @TheEconomist10 Jul 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:cmvp2dfgs7qrfjo5n27limmf/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcmqrzxdc2w